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Excerpt	Person	% Correct
At 5 feet 2 inches, he was the height of an average French male.	Napoleon	97%
On the Ides of March, 44 BC, he was assassinated by a group of rebellious senators.	Julius Caesar	95%
He became an ardent proponent of Rastafari, taking its music out of the socially deprived areas of Jamaica and onto the international music scene.	Bob Marley	86%
Victory in the 1982 Falklands War and the recovering economy brought a resurgence of support, resulting in her decisive re-election in 1983.	Margaret Thatcher	86%
Although he did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed the first automobile that many middle-class Americans could afford.	Henry Ford	83%
By his request, his body was buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Mongolia.	Genghis Khan	78%
Most European navigators reasonably concluded that a westward voyage from Europe to Asia was unfeasible.	Christopher Columbus	74%
Many historians and scholars regard him as the prime exemplar of the "Renaissance Man".	Leonardo da Vinci	73%
As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod and bifocals.	Benjamin Franklin	71%
After a reputed 49 days of meditation, he is said to have attained Enlightenment.	Buddha	69%
He later became troubled with the institution of slavery and freed his slaves in a 1799 will.	George Washington	61%
Xenophon and Plato agree that he had an opportunity to escape.	Socrates	58%
He was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890.	Otto von Bismarck	45%
... a scandal caused by her extramarital affair with co-star Richard Burton.	Elizabeth Taylor	42%
He gave Cortés the gift of an Aztec calendar, one disc of crafted gold and another of silver. Cortés later melted these down for their monetary value.	Montezuma	38%
She was the first woman to head a TV production company: Desilu, which she had formed with Arnaz.	Lucille Ball	34%
The common term lesbian originates from the name of the island of Lesbos, where she was born.	Sappho	33%
Her costume, consisting of only a girdle of artificial bananas, became her most iconic image and a symbol of the Jazz Age.	Josephine Baker	16%

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